The Superclass List
The Superclass List is a creation of David Rothkopf which his book Superclass: The Global Power Elite and The World They Are Making is based upon. There are four key elements of success that unite the members of the Superclass, and gives them unparalleled power over world affairs. These elements are: geography, pedigree, networking and luck.
The verified list
In the book Rothkopf writes that his list from 2008 contains 6,000 individuals. The grouping is, however, only defined roughly and as a statistical reality. Rothkopf also writes that list, is always in flux.Rothkopf states that his list is not to be shown in public as there will be so much discussion about who does or does not qualify to be on the list. In interviews he mentions individuals that are on the list. This list contain names that he argues he has verified.
Argentina
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Australia
- Rupert Murdoch
Belgium
- Albert Frère
- Étienne Davignon
- Maurice Lippens
Brazil
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
Chile
- Andronico Luksic
China
- Hu Jintao
- Fu Chengyu
- Ding Lei
- Lou Jiwei
- Yang Huiyan
- Zhou Xiaochuan
- Richard Li Tzar Kai
Colombia
- Luis Alberto Moreno
- Shakira
- Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Egypt
- Amr Khaled
- Amr Moussa
Denmark
- Janus Friis
France
- Nicolas Sarkozy
- Pascal Lamy
- Michèle Alliot-Marie
- Baudouin Prot
- Jean-Claude Trichet
Germany
- Angela Merkel
- Josef Ackermann
- Josef Joffe
- Rene Obermann
- Reinhard Mohn
India
- Lakshmi Mittal
- Sonia Gandhi
- Ratan Tata
- Kalanidhi Maran
- Rana Talwar
- Kushal Pal Singh
- Mukesh Ambani
- Indra Nooyi
- Tenzin Gyatso
Iran
- Ali Khamenei
Ireland
- Bob Geldof
Italy
- Silvio Berlusconi
Netherlands
- Jeroen van der Veer
Japan
- Hiroshi Mikitani
- Osamu Suzuki
- Akira Mori
Kenya
- Wangari Maathai
Kuwait
- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Lebanon
- Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah
Liberia
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
South Africa
- Patrice Motsepe
Mexico
- Mario Molina
- Genaro Larrea Mota Velasco
- Guillermo Ortiz Martinez
- Carlos Slim Helú
- Joaquín Guzman
Nigeria
- Aliko Dangote
- Odein Ajumogobia
- Francis Arinze
North Korea
- Kim Jong-il
Qatar
- Sheikh Hamad bin Thamer al-Thani
Russia
- Alexei Miller
- Vladimir Putin
- Vladimir Popovkin
- Andrey Likhachev
- Oleg Deripaska
Saudi Arabia
- Bandar bin Sultan
- Al-Waleed bin Talal
Singapore
- Ho Ching
South Africa
- Nelson Mandela
- Patrice Motsepe
South Korea
- David Yonggi Cho
Portugal
- José Manuel Barroso
Sweden
- Carl Bildt
- Marcus Wallenberg
- Ingvar Kamprad
- Fredrik Reinfeldt
- Carl-Henric Svanberg
Switzerland
- Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Turkey
- Kemal Derviş
United Arab Emirates
- Khalifa Mohammad Al-Kindi
United Kingdom
- Mike Turner
- Richard Branson
- Bernie Ecclestone
- Lakshmi Mittal
- John Silvester Varley
- Mark Thompson
- Stacy Shannon
United States of America
- George W. Bush
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Ronald Sugar
- Jeffrey Immelt
- James "Jamie" Dimon
- Robert Zoellick
- Oprah Winfrey
- Indra Nooyi
- Al Gore
- Lee Scott
- Michael Mullen
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Pierre Omidyar
- Steve Case
- Sumner Redstone
- Michael Bloomberg
- Rex Tillerson
- Ben Bernanke
- Ken Lewis
- Stephen Green
- Lloyd Blankfein
- Sergey Brin
- Larry Page
- Bill Gates
- Warren Buffett
- Jerry Yang
- Henry "Hank" Paulson
- Joshua Bolten
Vatican
- Pope Benedict XVI
Venezuela
- Lorenzo Mendoza Gimenez
- Gustavo Cisneros